The position will never be filled if they have people to work it "as part of their normal duties" (i.e.: for free).
It's time to look for another job. If he hasn't backed himself into a corner (massive mortgage, kids, and a non-working spouse), he can always quit and look for another job, or start his own doing consulting. If he can't or won't do either, I don't want to hear complaints.
In cash-cow businesses like the recording industry, there are lavish expenses which are charged against income. Do you know what a last-minute international first class ticket costs? They can be north of $10k. New buildings, assistants to the assistant's second assistant, entertainment (for the people they wish to woo), marketing, etc. can burn cash very quickly. Once you get used to such perks it's hard to dial them back. In a way it's like the federal government - it never gets smaller.
You probably got a more useful education at RPI. I'd be more likely to hire an engineering grad from RPI, Cal Poly, or VT before I'd hire an MIT or CalTech grad, all other things being equal.
There have got to be programs out there that would kill to get a combined 1380 for the entire team. Then again, there are programs who just don't care either, as long as you can run a 4.3 40.
Just ignore the patents. It's not like Australia is going to invade the rest of the world to assert their IP. In fact, that would be true for just about everybody.
This is like one of those silly games you play in igh school psych. If everybody simply ignored international IP, there would be more reason to scrap the current system.
Whether the drugs happen to be legal (caffeine, alcohol, pot, hash, pseudoephedrine...) or not is irrelevant. A crime committed against an unpopular person/group is still a crime.
What happens if someone creates an application for a computer and Microsoft was on its way to making an application like that but for charge. Microsoft has just waisted its time and could be open to lawsuits.
I hate to say it but, um, that's exactly the way most computer software works. You develop something and you distribute it. There are different price points for different offerings, including free (as in beer, or as in speech). Just because you anticipate a monopoly doesn't mean you get to have one.
Get a PhD Get your private pilots license Get certified in Scuba Run 10 miles a day, be in good physical shape Make sure you are comfortable speaking in public, and are fairly good at it Have diverse interests
Now you've met the real minimum requirements...go have fun!
FFWIW, I considered being an as-can, and know others who were attempting to get selected. Getting into the NBA is a bit easier than getting into to be an astronaut, statistically speaking.
This case notwithstanding, I beg to differ. Biologically everyone has a mother; practically speaking there are very few children with parents who pay as much attention to raising their children as they should. In fact, I know a lot of kids that could do with an extra mom or two, based on their biological mother's (and father's) performance to date.
Of course this won't happen. You mentioned that teaching is an interactive process, but you forgot to add that the TIAA would require a payment of nearly the cost of a typical teacher to replay the recordings. Technology is about opportunity to increase revenue through efficiency, not about increasing efficiency for its own sake.
I was in the first class of engineers which my school required to have a computer. That was 20 years ago. I now live in that college town, and have occasional interaction with the engineering department and its students. (No, that's not what I meant - get your mind out of the gutter). They use computers for the same things I did - CAD, spreadsheets, term papers. They get more out of them through the internet as many professors put assignments, notes and samples on line. We didn't play too many games because there weren't many immersive ones, and we didn't surf because the internet did not exist then as it exists now. The web had not yet been created (by web, I mean HTML and browsers). We didn't chat, unless you count BBSs - which I don't. We didn't download music or videos - most PCs didn't have sound cards, video wasn't really possible on an 8086, and p0rn, even if it existed was not really a hot item at 320x240 (in a stunning 256 colors).
It seems that most of the progress has been in added functionality (as in more built-in functions - 3D solid cad, more rows/cols) and speed of processing. Everything else seems to be more about entertainment, whether its games, connectivity, or casual information (surfing). Students can amass more crap via downloads, but if you never print it out or look at it on the screen page-by-page it's just as bad as a Kinkos-printed set of notes where you watch the comb spine slowly yellow over the years. Actually, I suppose its worse - without that yellow spine in the bookcase to remind you that you have it, you don't even remember that lecture note set exists, buried in some sub-folder in you document directory.
IMHO very little has changed in 20 years on the teaching front. The critical component to education in the interactive ability of the teacher and student to work together. Web-enabled learning still tens to fall short, imho, and expanding class attendance through distance learning just reduces the opportunity to get everyone involved in the learning process.
Wait...I take part of that back - email does make a difference. Quick questions can be answered efficiently in an asynchronous manner that wasn't possible in my day (yes, we had voicemail, but couldn't copy the whole class). Still, it doesn't really scream "new teaching methods are necessary," unless new teaching methods involves putting web blocking software in the routers to keep the kids from surfing in a boring lecture.
Actually, if you'd been on/. over the weekend, you would have gotten the first installment of the series. I was thinking this was a dupe, but it turns out it's just a link to a story discussing somehting which was on/. last night. A meta-dupe, if you will.
How about simply forbidding licenses on retail software? Would it be so bad to simply be required to comply with copyright laws?
This whole damned thing started with visicalc, or similar, and people using it for critical calculation tasks. And yet hardware calculators don't seem to have the same legal issues.
I've always thought this was a bit fishy...if I call and ask for an AD product, the vendor takes my CC# and sends me a box. Why should I be prohibited from reselling it if I don't want it. Hell, even if I install it and then switch to Bentley, why can't I then sell my unused SW? Supposedly, the only way to sell your license in AD's good graces is to sell your entire business (or your immortal soul, if you personally registered it, I suppose).
Now, AutoCAD does have the potential seller by the short hairs, since they can deny any future upgrade pricing, but since I know lots of shops who upgrade every 4-5 years, and AD phases out any upgrade discount by then (you can pay $800/yr for maintenance, or $800 x n years since your last version to upgrade; sweet, huh?).
I just know that at this point, I've got a $4000 piece of software in which I only use $800 worth of functionality. How do I know? Because the rest of my licenses are ACAD LT, and they work just as well for what we do as the Architecture.
A legitimate site with actual content - preferably high quality - that I could download and watch? Ads...bfd - if I'm going to watch it a bunch of times I might go to the effort of stripping them out, but I'll probably just tivo-skip with the player instead. One issue I have with torrents is that the older stuff never gets seeded, and it I want to find anything that's not hot, it can be days to get it, if at all. A content-owner seed would always be available, while the high-traffic seeds wouldn't overwhelm the central server.
They could even make the ads dynamic, changing the ad content to keep it fresh (and keep the ad revenue flowing). Of course it will never fly.
Because the government has already spent that money, and if the government shut down completely for 5 years and we just paid off the deb with that money, we'd still have a balance.
Trust me...you ain't gettin' a dime of that money.
I'd be willing to bet a dollar that looked at all the entrepreneurs that work really hard, less than 1% of them end up owning a company worth more than $1B.
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The position will never be filled if they have people to work it "as part of their normal duties" (i.e.: for free).
It's time to look for another job. If he hasn't backed himself into a corner (massive mortgage, kids, and a non-working spouse), he can always quit and look for another job, or start his own doing consulting. If he can't or won't do either, I don't want to hear complaints.
In cash-cow businesses like the recording industry, there are lavish expenses which are charged against income. Do you know what a last-minute international first class ticket costs? They can be north of $10k. New buildings, assistants to the assistant's second assistant, entertainment (for the people they wish to woo), marketing, etc. can burn cash very quickly. Once you get used to such perks it's hard to dial them back. In a way it's like the federal government - it never gets smaller.
...but somebody is cashing in on ad revenue at the same time?
Seriously, though, I'm not to the point where my phone bill is so expensive I'd do this. Cable TV on the other hand...
You probably got a more useful education at RPI. I'd be more likely to hire an engineering grad from RPI, Cal Poly, or VT before I'd hire an MIT or CalTech grad, all other things being equal.
There have got to be programs out there that would kill to get a combined 1380 for the entire team. Then again, there are programs who just don't care either, as long as you can run a 4.3 40.
Just ignore the patents. It's not like Australia is going to invade the rest of the world to assert their IP. In fact, that would be true for just about everybody.
This is like one of those silly games you play in igh school psych. If everybody simply ignored international IP, there would be more reason to scrap the current system.
Is that not true?
Whether the drugs happen to be legal (caffeine, alcohol, pot, hash, pseudoephedrine...) or not is irrelevant. A crime committed against an unpopular person/group is still a crime.
Dude, when did you get volume 17?
Damn it! That's the last time I pre-order anything at Amazon.
Oops, forgot that one. At the time I was looking to become one, I did work at NASA as a principal aerospace engineer.
I didn't have the PhD or the pilot's license (heh, still don't), but those were both reasonably obtainable.
Let me update your post just a bit:
What happens if someone creates an application for a computer and Microsoft was on its way to making an application like that but for charge. Microsoft has just waisted its time and could be open to lawsuits.
I hate to say it but, um, that's exactly the way most computer software works. You develop something and you distribute it. There are different price points for different offerings, including free (as in beer, or as in speech). Just because you anticipate a monopoly doesn't mean you get to have one.
Get a PhD
Get your private pilots license
Get certified in Scuba
Run 10 miles a day, be in good physical shape
Make sure you are comfortable speaking in public, and are fairly good at it
Have diverse interests
Now you've met the real minimum requirements...go have fun!
FFWIW, I considered being an as-can, and know others who were attempting to get selected. Getting into the NBA is a bit easier than getting into to be an astronaut, statistically speaking.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when your annual budget approaches a trillion dollars, isn't it?
You must be new here.
Yup, that pretty much covers it. Just my observation, of course.
This case notwithstanding, I beg to differ. Biologically everyone has a mother; practically speaking there are very few children with parents who pay as much attention to raising their children as they should. In fact, I know a lot of kids that could do with an extra mom or two, based on their biological mother's (and father's) performance to date.
Busted. It's been a long time since I've thought much about that PS/2.
Of course this won't happen. You mentioned that teaching is an interactive process, but you forgot to add that the TIAA would require a payment of nearly the cost of a typical teacher to replay the recordings. Technology is about opportunity to increase revenue through efficiency, not about increasing efficiency for its own sake.
I was in the first class of engineers which my school required to have a computer. That was 20 years ago. I now live in that college town, and have occasional interaction with the engineering department and its students. (No, that's not what I meant - get your mind out of the gutter). They use computers for the same things I did - CAD, spreadsheets, term papers. They get more out of them through the internet as many professors put assignments, notes and samples on line. We didn't play too many games because there weren't many immersive ones, and we didn't surf because the internet did not exist then as it exists now. The web had not yet been created (by web, I mean HTML and browsers). We didn't chat, unless you count BBSs - which I don't. We didn't download music or videos - most PCs didn't have sound cards, video wasn't really possible on an 8086, and p0rn, even if it existed was not really a hot item at 320x240 (in a stunning 256 colors).
It seems that most of the progress has been in added functionality (as in more built-in functions - 3D solid cad, more rows/cols) and speed of processing. Everything else seems to be more about entertainment, whether its games, connectivity, or casual information (surfing). Students can amass more crap via downloads, but if you never print it out or look at it on the screen page-by-page it's just as bad as a Kinkos-printed set of notes where you watch the comb spine slowly yellow over the years. Actually, I suppose its worse - without that yellow spine in the bookcase to remind you that you have it, you don't even remember that lecture note set exists, buried in some sub-folder in you document directory.
IMHO very little has changed in 20 years on the teaching front. The critical component to education in the interactive ability of the teacher and student to work together. Web-enabled learning still tens to fall short, imho, and expanding class attendance through distance learning just reduces the opportunity to get everyone involved in the learning process.
Wait...I take part of that back - email does make a difference. Quick questions can be answered efficiently in an asynchronous manner that wasn't possible in my day (yes, we had voicemail, but couldn't copy the whole class). Still, it doesn't really scream "new teaching methods are necessary," unless new teaching methods involves putting web blocking software in the routers to keep the kids from surfing in a boring lecture.
Actually, if you'd been on /. over the weekend, you would have gotten the first installment of the series. I was thinking this was a dupe, but it turns out it's just a link to a story discussing somehting which was on /. last night. A meta-dupe, if you will.
How about simply forbidding licenses on retail software? Would it be so bad to simply be required to comply with copyright laws?
This whole damned thing started with visicalc, or similar, and people using it for critical calculation tasks. And yet hardware calculators don't seem to have the same legal issues.
I've always thought this was a bit fishy...if I call and ask for an AD product, the vendor takes my CC# and sends me a box. Why should I be prohibited from reselling it if I don't want it. Hell, even if I install it and then switch to Bentley, why can't I then sell my unused SW? Supposedly, the only way to sell your license in AD's good graces is to sell your entire business (or your immortal soul, if you personally registered it, I suppose).
Now, AutoCAD does have the potential seller by the short hairs, since they can deny any future upgrade pricing, but since I know lots of shops who upgrade every 4-5 years, and AD phases out any upgrade discount by then (you can pay $800/yr for maintenance, or $800 x n years since your last version to upgrade; sweet, huh?).
I just know that at this point, I've got a $4000 piece of software in which I only use $800 worth of functionality. How do I know? Because the rest of my licenses are ACAD LT, and they work just as well for what we do as the Architecture.
A legitimate site with actual content - preferably high quality - that I could download and watch? Ads...bfd - if I'm going to watch it a bunch of times I might go to the effort of stripping them out, but I'll probably just tivo-skip with the player instead. One issue I have with torrents is that the older stuff never gets seeded, and it I want to find anything that's not hot, it can be days to get it, if at all. A content-owner seed would always be available, while the high-traffic seeds wouldn't overwhelm the central server.
They could even make the ads dynamic, changing the ad content to keep it fresh (and keep the ad revenue flowing). Of course it will never fly.
Thing is, you don't really fit the mold - you went to college. The OP wants to shortcut around college.
That said, it looks like there's a mod out there who disagrees with me, too, having modded down all three comments. Sore loser, I suspect.
Because the government has already spent that money, and if the government shut down completely for 5 years and we just paid off the deb with that money, we'd still have a balance.
Trust me...you ain't gettin' a dime of that money.
I'd be willing to bet a dollar that looked at all the entrepreneurs that work really hard, less than 1% of them end up owning a company worth more than $1B.